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Compost
Because we are now only three, we make less organic trash, which means we empty every other day instead of each night. What must we solve to have nothing to do when we get home except relax?
How many breaks in the wall
can we see when moving from box to box, tracking down a foul odor
to dispose of its source,
from one controlled space to another with uneven temperatures?
Kolankiewicz is the author of The Way You Will Go and Lost in Transition (both from Finishing Line Press) and Turning Inside Out (Black Lawrence Press). Her poems have appeared in Galway Review, One, Otis Nebulae, Trampset, Concho River Review, London Magazine, New World Writing, Appalachian Heritage, and elsewhere.
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